I almost felt myself falling off that cliff when you looked down.

Great to see you use the Cliff Gaff, Matt! Here in Australia we tie it to a thicker attachment line to help with line management so it doesn’t tangle when we need to deploy it. Also to help stay on the fishing line we secure the gaff opening with a clip or tape before we deploy it down to the fish. Hope this helps and looking forward to seeing your version of it get release!

When I was in the 4th Grade my teacher who lived in Shell Beach, CA. was walking along the cliffs near her home with her husband. Her husband got close to the edge, the cliff gave way, and he fell to the rocks below. He lived, but was definitely jacked up! Fishermans Life, we love you bro! And your brother Daniel too. If you were single, I could understand temping fate, but you have a wife and 3 children. If something were to befall you, where would they be? The loss would be devastating to us all! Hate to be the wet blanket, but someone's gotta do it.

I’ve been using the cliff gaff here in Western Australia for years , the one you have is for much larger fish, you can get them in 2 sizes I also sharpen the points , make sure the gaff points touch, and close up the gap on the ring opening

Dude... I've been watching you for years and I've been amazed many times. That slip on the cliff had me me jumping back!!! That Australian gaff was a learning experience... But it worked!!! Great job!!! Look forward to more videos!!!

Dope stuff man! Just a tip from someone who’s fished this way in Hawaii a lot: a longer rod with a bit more backbone than what you’d normally use to fish the rocks is good for fishing cliffs because It will allow you to attach the slide gaf higher off the ground so you won’t need to get as close to the edge.

I suggested to use this gaff after I saw that video. Glad to see you got it. Although it's a bigger one and you paid way more than I did on eBay the split ring should be way closer than that. Basically the metal bars should touch each other and barely slip the line in. Should use a 3/8 rope tied to the top ring and it should be in a bag pre organized loose so it comes out in the right order. Mine is a 100 ft rope and the small storage bag is clipped on my fishing backpack making a one man job easy. I pulled fish up 80 ft cliffs around neah bay , Washington with no trouble. If you pm me I'll send you a short video with my set up. Stay safe

Man, you are crazy. No fish is worth losing your life over. As I got older I got a fear of heights. Watching this brought my anxiety up to maximum. Just be careful brother.

Great seeing Daniel and Matt in the action again, nice teamwork !

We’ve used cliff gaffs in Hawaii for years but I’ve never seen one in a store. We always made them ourselves. Much smaller than that one, the best designs were made of a an inch and a half by 4 inch galvanized pipe nipple. Three big trolling hooks. I improved on the dangling hooks by instead attaching them to spring steel straps so that the hooks were rigid and always faced inward. Once it made contact with the fish’s head, the springs let the hooks open up and usually all three hooks grabbed the fish. The way we made sure the gaff couldn’t slip off the line was, a slot was cut diagonally down the length of the pipe so that the line being straight, couldn’t find its way back through the crooked slot. The whole pipe was slid down with the line running right up through the pipe. It never slipped off. I’ve seen guys cut that slot straight, and theirs always slipped off the line. The trick was the diagonal slot. Good going though, Matt! Got two lings in with that sloppy cliff gaff. Didn’t even fall of the cliff either. Spooky brah. 🤙🏼

Glad you came out together guys, seeing you on the cliff was Scarry ! Great team work, Good catches and Fun memories made, Thanks for taking us along Matts. Love your videos 🥰🎣👊

Studying hard in nursing school and it’s kinda consuming my life. Your videos give me a reprieve. Thank you man 🤙

I'm guessing it's just practice. But I would take a very basic rock climbing course, get a harness and make sure you clip in with the rope at those heights. Just a little know how we'll keep you guys safe so I can watch these videos!

My fear of heights almost took over and forced me to turn this video off. Haha. That was so damn close to the edge. Oy! Hahaha great fish

Yes I miss the old school Matt’s and Daniel videos always the best watching you guys kill it out there

Can't wait to get home and watch this one. The flying gaff is cool and I can't wait to see how you landed another great lingcod from shore. I've been trying for 2 years to hook a keeper ling from shore! Granted, I've made up for it in tasty Cabs. 😃

Wow your channel has grown huge man. Hope you’re still not getting sea sick out there! Love to see it. Keep the content coming.

Although I cannot go to your events, I love watching your videos. Love you Matts!

Loved the video Matt! Here's a way to improve the cliff gaff. Use rebar to form a locking collar ring that holds three Australian size treble hooks with nylon rope secured to the collar. The trick is your metal ring latches around the fish line, then closes and rides down the line slipping over the bobber stopping at the fish's head. The large trebles just pass over the body but hook the fish when collar is retrieved. Heavy metal ring, large trebles, long nylon rope = cliff gaff!

You got it!! Ok, I have to thank Gido for his video demonstrations, so many of us have watched his epic cliff adventures. Some of us suggested this device after watching your earlier catches without one. Sea ya!

Absolutely insanely dangerous! Man, I don't know what to say.

I’ve seen the Guys in Australia use the Cliff Gaff for a few years, but You are the first person here in America I have seen use One!

You gave me heart palpetations each time you were on that point of the cliff. Good lord!

Off that cliff? That’s insane.

Man, my hands were all sweaty watching you guys at the edge of this cliff... Definitely a "cliff hanger"!!

Great video 👍🏾. Your channel is one of the channels that inspired me to get started 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾

Bruv, be careful playing on them rocks, I need you to be able to continue to make these great videos!

Go the Aussie gaff. Despite the frustrations, it got you a couple of good fish. Some more practice required and perhaps better rope management. I suspect the device was designed for large diameter monofilament rather than braid. Some silicone tubing over the ends of the steel loop would close the gap so the line wouldn't slip out, although you might have to remove a little material. Regards from NZ.

I feel weak to my stomach and my knee shaking just seeing y'all so close to the cliff.... 😂

That’s a nice size! Damn dude! Props to you my guy!

My wife just bought your bobber system as a gift for me.. Can't wait to try it at the South Jetty of Morro Bay or at MDO in search of that first keeper Ling from shore. Thanks!

Look at Gido’s fishing adventures. He uses that gaff quite often. And he fishes much higher on the rocks. It’s a nice KZfaq channel.

Awesome. Im from North Carolina and do a lot of saltwater fishing here. I went to Alaska last summer and went fishing for rock fish for the first time. Wish we had that stuff here! A lot of fun

Man Matts if you gonna fish cliffs you need to wear a safety harness staked down in solid ground. Epic video though good to see Daniel out there slaying them fish also. Anyways stay safe out there and have a blessed day. Aloha from Kansas.

Cliff gaff????? That's awesome. Never heard of that one. Can't believe that actually worked. Very cool. Also I got dizzy when you looked down that cliff haha!

I wish you would spend more time explaining and showing your fishing gear and techniques for beginners like myself, love your videos !

I would have fell off cliff when Matt’s told Daniel “Why would you say that?!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

Always exciting to see a new vid!

This is the type of videos I love! Shore fishing off the rocks and beaches.

Hi Matt...several people have already made some very good suggestions on how best to employ, & improve, that cliff gaff rig...&, at least one commentor mentioned Gido's KZfaq cliff fishing channel from South Australia 🇦🇺....Gido is a very solid rock climber & fisherman--he employs both skill sets masterfully to access some really incredible, & otherwise virtually impossible to reach, fishing locations in a safe manner...he's an expert at using the cliff gaff, but even he has plenty of difficulty landing a big fish with it sometimes...I'm a former co-worker of your good friend Andrew...we're both ER RN's, plus I work a lot Trauma--you absolutely must wear a rock climbing safety harness & secure yourself to solid & immovable attachment point before fishing so close to the cliff's edge...you already slipped once on that loose rope laying on the ground (luckily it happened when you were far enough back from the edge that you didn't fall over)...please take some better safety measures, if you're going to do anymore cliff fishing!

That was epic good team work Damn Daniel the philosophy was "MIA"

Don't let your wife watch this video bro! 😂Go get yourself a harness next! I was just wondering yesterday if you ended up getting the cliff gaff yet and boom there it is! Thanks for sharing the experience and frustration with that thing. Gido has it down! Will just take a bit of tweaking I'm sure and you'll be a pro. Awesome video and beautiful fish as usual 🤘

LOL, Y'all need the Benny Hill music playing while you try and use the cliff gaff. Yakety Sax activities. Thanks for the episode.

That's a crazy contraption for landing fish. I'd get a "Cuban yoyo" handline spool or something like that to keep the rope untangled. I'm definitely curious about using it from a pier or bridge. But it's awfully expensive. It looks easy enough to make. Those waves are incredible. I grew up around the Gulf Of Mexico and we didn't have waves like that without a hurricane. You guys are dedicated, that's gnarly conditions for fishin'.

Search up “Hawaiian slide gaff”. We use something similar to that Australian gaff your using. A lot simpler to use and wont come off the line when sliding down

oh man, that was intense to watch. interesting tool for bringing it in, I`ve been thinking about making something like that for years. I would have used an old rod and a big reel to use with the tool to have better control of the hole process. man I want to go fishing now :D

Woo hoo! Way to go boys! Best video I’ve seen in a long time!

Dude my anxiety went thru the roof watching you guys on the edge 😬

I kept skipping the video, too scary to watch but big respect to you! Watching all the way from Singapore here :)

Hey Matt, I am from Australia, a little something on the cliff gaff, you send the gaff down by the prong (one of the three), from what I can see you were some how sending it from the base of the gaff so it kept popping off. Next time try sending it down from one of the of the gaff hook it should follow your line all the way down right to the fish. Cheers.

Hey Matt, the Aussie's use some type of retainer with very strong line. Then, they drop the gaff with the retainer so it goes exactly where the fishing line ends. Makes it a lot easier. Look it up!

Okay I get it now. Just saw the product on their site. Matt, the area you were gripping at 00:53 with your right hand, that's where it's a split ring (where the arms attach). The top ring is for a secure, sturdy knotted line. You thread the gaff onto your fishing line at the split and lower it down using your fishing line as a guide.

Dude!! You were making me so nervous. I came close a long time ago to fall off so I was having flashbacks

Tie a loop(figure 8 knot) on the orange line about 2-3 up from the gaff. Then get a carabiner and clip it on the loop. When you need to gaff from a height like that, clip the carabiner to the main line so the gaff runs down the main fishing line right to the fish instead of trying to align it from that height.

8:58 is when the fun homie banter starts. Too good, man, that's the best part of fishing with friends.

I think you’re not using the gaff right. I think you have to feed the main line through circle part of the gaff so that it slides down your line directly into the fish.

That’s right dude let’s not stop fishing even tho weather is crazy right now. Keep it up dude with the awesome content..

Always fun to see you two fishing together but holy shit this video almost gave me a heart attack. That slip, and how you were sitting on that crumbly looking little point! My friend’s girlfriend fell off a Sonoma coast cliff and died in the 90s. They were flying a kite and she wasn’t even close to the edge but must have stumbled a ways- he was paying out the line and looking down and didn’t see her go over. Anyway, my point is a fish (or a KZfaq video) isn’t worth it man, take care. Good looking fish though lol

thats dangerous bro, be safe out there ! Love your videos.

In Florida we call that gaff,a bridge/pier gaff and I've seen small than that at a much much lesser price. I'm going to go investigate where to find that particular gaff for you. When I think about it now the ones I have seen, may have been handmade locally and sold at the tackle shop. The smaller when is use the same way .

I think you can cut, and then weld a hinge and locking clip into the circle ring above the hooks on the gaff (instead of having a “huge key ring” to attach to and slide on to your fishing line).

Simple fix for the gaffe. Just zip tie the part where the line goes through after you put it on the line.

Really nice cliff gaff and lingcods!! The only other KZfaqr I’ve seen use one is Gido’s fishing adventures, and I’m not sure if he has a different kind of gaff but his doesn’t come off the fishing line that often. Either way I’m sure you guys will figure it out.

It looks scary being that closed to the Cliff edges, but very Good Job dudes!!

Gotta love the bobber rig!!! I gotta get myself one!

Hay,very cool and entertaining,Tanks again “A”!

You know what you're doing. Nothing but love for you both. 🥰🥰🥰

Was supposed to go grocery shopping, but then I saw this upload so it will have to wait.

Bro that was intense!!!!! And the gopro on that gaff next time lol would be sick

Fisherman life cliff gaff coming soon! Gido adventures shows very good cliff gaffing skills. I don't think Adam was too happy with that mistake Matt LOL HAHA

Heck yeah! Love the episodes with Philosophy D on them!

Stay safe and stay Fishing . Great video

That was like the claw game at the arcade.

Yo Dude, you had my heart pounding. That was whack! Amazing!

Nice spot! I would wear a safety Harness to be on the safe side

Matts, Im thinking if you grabbed the line, just enough to thread the line from another section, instead of the same section with the line, it can't slide off. The only drawback would be that you need to pull extra line and would have slack as you let go of the line. Just my 2 cents. Be careful near them edges. I loved the video.

Hey Matt comment by Sean Callahan used a pipe with a diagonal slit for the line. Maybe using that style with a heavy rod in the situation would keep you off the side of the cliff. You could test it in a controlled environment and when confident have it where you don't have to look down the cliff. I'm a diyer who works on CCSF buildings HVAC, power and water. I fish as well growing up in San Mateo but I'm in Tracy now with a one and a half year old daughter. I can't wait to get her out on trails and fishing.

Top ring is like a key chain loop, feed the line thru it. If too loose, tighten, too tight, loosen.

I've never been so nervous watching a fishing video. I just knew someone was going over.

Dangerous as hell, my feet was tingling looking over that edge. 😂

I don't know if anyone mentioned it but you could retrofit a springloaded gate on to that gaf and it will stop it from coming off the line.

You need to get some Izorline Dacron 50lb braided line. You could have pulled those up no issues. Great job though!

I was wondering why you guys didn't use a zip tie or something to close the gap haha. super exciting stuff though, the ocean can be scary sometimes, especially on a cliff. Great fish!

You guys are crazy fishing that close to the cliff.

Y’all make a great team 😂😂😂 fishing is the best 🙌

Dang brother, that looks intense .

the rubber band you took off it is that you needed to wrap around the opening where the line went through, nice fish

Finally catching on to a HI goto for cliff fishing. Proper slide gaffs work better, but is almost as good. Is definitely necessary under certain circumstances.

Not sure if anyone has commented this solution but I think if you were to rubber band the gap somehow, the line won't slip out. Never used one but seems to work in my mind.

I wish your videos were longer 🙏 I always watch your videos on tv 😅

bro keep rocking that gaf nice catch yall are beast lets go

I would try using the cliff gaff on a beefy surf rod with heavy line, that should make it easy to drop the gaff down following your fishing line.

Yeah if I was working on that cliff I would have roped in, harnessed myself and I would have felt a lot more confident. But just might have been the camera lens

Fisherman Life the 🐐 IN THE FISHING GANG🔥🔥🤘🏾

i made one with a sliding sleeve to secure the opening to the ring. Get the line in then slide the sleeve over the opening to where the line goes through. My opening was with the two ends exactly opposite to each other

The flying gaff attaches to your fishing line. The circle on the upper part of the gaff acts like a giant split ring, you weave it onto your line.

That’s some adrenaline rush that dragging me out the couch! Stay safe 😅and create a safety harness. One slipped you done for.

Good work bro. But damn, that was one of the sketchiest cliff edges ive seen fished..loose gravel 😨😨😄

men, that was scary, even to watch, great video

Have you tried fishing in Hawaii? On the big island you can deep sea fish at South Point off of the shore. Incredible fishing from the cliffs. Soth Point is the southernmost point in the USA.